The authorities thought they were sure to win, but who knew that the news agency was not worried but happy.
A female editor held back her laughter and secretly explained to Zhang Hongcheng and his wife.
"They think they can slap us in the face, but they have no idea. We don't care at all."
"From the very beginning, what we wanted was this opportunity for exchange between the two places. Winning or losing doesn't matter."
Chu Miaohong asked curiously.
"If we lose, wouldn't that be embarrassing?"
The young female editor waved her hand indifferently.
"We're not very good at pop music to begin with, so there's a high probability we'll lose, but this is a rare opportunity to showcase our mainland culture and landscape."
"Guangdong Province is urgently calling on its singers to come to Hong Kong."
Zhang Hongcheng suddenly seemed to think of something.
“What songs will they sing when they come over?”
The female editor looked at him in surprise. She didn't expect Xiao Zhang to react so quickly.
"Many of the movie songs from the 1950s and 1960s were love songs."
Chu Miaohong didn't understand the witty exchange between the two.
"Those old love songs probably can't beat local singers, right? Besides, local audiences aren't the target audience."
Zhang Hongcheng has already figured it out.
Winning or losing really doesn’t matter. The main thing is to use practical actions to tell Hong Kong people that the mainland is ready to relax its control over love songs.
For example, if it was later announced that several tape production lines were to be introduced, the Hong Kong businessmen who had previously been timid and hesitant about the mainland's reform and opening-up policy would probably immediately scramble to get involved.
Who can resist the temptation of selling those songs from Hong Kong to a market of hundreds of millions of people in mainland China?
Opening a tape factory is not about recording tapes, it is about printing money!
Now that we have the tapes, the manufacturer that invests in the recorder and player that plays the tapes should also make money, right?
The supporting mold factories and electronic component factories must have no shortage of orders. Why not invest in one or two?
Battery factory, color printing factory, plastic factory...
A complete conspiracy!
Win or lose, they don't care at all.
In fact, Zhang Hongcheng thought further. Once the Hong Kong style gradually spreads northward, clothing factories and daily necessities factories will be the ones that make the most money.
The news agency and Guangdong Province, which was preparing to establish a special economic zone, were secretly preparing to make trouble, but Xia Run was dumbfounded.
No, I have exiled you two to Ningguta.
It's that Super Cold Palace that's been off the air for seven years. I was just playing a song for an old listener, but you two still made such a big fuss about it? ! !
Seven or eight singers from Guangdong Province are going to come over urgently, and the Beijing Ministry of Culture is even preparing to mobilize the original singers of these songs to go south for support.
Faced with the astonishment of the group's human resources department, Zhang Hongcheng and Chu Miaohong also felt wronged. God knows who posted the message in the first place. The couple really didn't mean to cause trouble.
"Don't!"
Minister Qu thought for a long time and finally stopped Deputy Section Chief Qiu from moving these two people to another place.
"Just let them stay there and don't cause any trouble...or mess with other places!"
"Anyway, Guangdong Province is planning to take over Rediffusion Radio, so they'll both be sidelined soon. It's better to stay still than to move."
But Deputy Section Chief Qiu was somewhat unwilling.
"Minister, I always feel that putting them there is not a good idea. They can cause too much trouble!"
"But did they make a mistake? Wasn't that done after prior consultation and according to instructions?"
Minister Qu asked back unhappily.
"It was mainly because of that article that caused the trouble. The couple actually made some contributions. What excuse do you use to transfer them back and forth?"
After scolding the unwilling Qiu Dahai away, Minister Qu sat on the chair and sighed deeply.
That was close!
If Lao Qiu were really allowed to transfer these two people, I'm afraid the news agency would mess with the transfer procedures.
—You bunch of treacherous fellows, do you really think I don't know that you've already taken a fancy to that young couple?!
If someone gets lost here, how can I explain it to the capital?
When they heard that the young couple had not been transferred and were still living their daily life on the third floor of the dormitory building or practicing music with the street band, several leaders of the news agency rubbed their heads in annoyance - my god, Old Qu has actually become smarter!
The first group of singers organized from Guangdong Province consisted of five people and arrived on July 26th.
That evening, the news agency organized two of them to enter the broadcasting studio, hoping that they could adapt in advance.
Chu Miaohong was still in charge of the announcer and host, while the half-baked Zhang Hongcheng was in charge of the sound tuning - after all, this was Xia Run Company's territory and equipment, and it had to be operated by Xia Run's people.
The two singers, one male and one female, are in their thirties and are at the golden age of singing.
The male singer sang the song "Night on the Prairie" and the female singer sang "Ninety-nine Sunny Days".
The songs they performed in Cantonese were wonderful, and both Zhang Hongcheng and Chu Miaohong were fascinated by them.
But the next calls from the audience made the two singers pale in the face - seven out of ten calls were swearing, and some even laughed out loud.
The night before the official performance, the news agency organized the remaining three singers to try out the show.
Cantonese versions of "Meeting at the Aobao", "By the Butterfly Spring" and "Red Berries in Bloom".
The response from listeners' calls did not improve, and the next day, Hong Kong newspapers were full of sarcasm and ridicule.
After reading the newspapers, four of the five singers burst into tears and one looked dejected.
The atmosphere in the broadcasting studio was gloomy, but the news agency and Guangdong Province were secretly happy because their goal had been achieved - no one in the Hong Kong newspapers anymore doubted that love songs were not allowed in mainland China.
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